Re: capacitor transformer
"Jamie Morken" <jmorken@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Is there any application for using two electrostatically coupled
> capacitors to make a transformer? Would changing the ratio of plate
> area and plate seperation from the primary to secondary capacitor plates
> be able to control the voltage input and output ratios? This
> transformer would only be able to work with AC input just like an
> inductor based transformer, the main benefit I can see is that it works
> electrostatically so may not need an iron core to hold the EMF, and
> should be good for high frequency?
>
> cheers,
> Jamie
You can get a voltage gain of a few percent with a properly connected RC
network as shown in this old patent. The phase is frequency dependent
however. Ratch
http://patimg2.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=02769088&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPALL%
2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%2Fnetahtml%2Fsrchnum.htm%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2
526s1%3D2769088.WKU.%2526OS%3DPN%2F2769088%2526RS%3DPN%2F2769088&PageNum=&Rt
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